In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths

[MissAlmond]

French cinematographer Pierre Lhomme has died, age 89.

https://deadline.com/2019/07/pierre-lhomme-dies-cyrano-de-bergerac-french-cinematographer-1202642271/

[MissAlmond]

Actor Paul Benjamin has died, age 81.  I remember from an episode of Law and Order playing an elder who

Spoiler

murdered the man who scammed him from his home.

Wonderful performance! 

https://deadline.com/2019/07/paul-benjamin-dead-do-the-right-thing-actor-was-81-1202642337/

[festivus]

I didn't recognize the name at first but as soon as I read your Law and Order spoiler I knew who he was. It was a great performance. RIP Mr. Benjamin.

[BW Manilowe]

54 minutes ago, festivus said:

I didn't recognize the name at first but as soon as I read your Law and Order spoiler I knew who he was. It was a great performance. RIP Mr. Benjamin.

Yes, that was a great performance. And then there was the character’s son, who tried to have his father declared incompetent over the whole thing & who, according to the father, would marry the sort of flashy lawyer, Shambala Green. She was a recurring character lawyer the son hired to get his father declared incompetent.

[Vixenstud]

As wonderful as Mr. Benjamin was, there was one role he played that always haunted me, and it was his role as Freeman, the man that raped eight year old Maya Angelou in I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.

Rest well, sir.

[MissAlmond]

A suspect has been arrested in Dennis Day's death.  Links posted in Misc Celebrity News.  

[praeceptrix]

João Gilberto "father of bossa nova" has died. He was 88.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48894651#

[SimoneS]

Paul Benjamin was such a talented actor. I enjoyed so many of his performances.

Rest in peace, Paul.

[BetterButter]

Cameron Boyce, Disney Channel star, dies at 20

[DrSpaceman]

Cameron Boyce from Jessie died!  Couldn't believe it, used to watch that show with my son :

https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/07/cameron-boyce-dead-at-20/

I suspect that was SUDEP, sudden unexplained death in epilepsy.  Is a rare but known condition.  Just die in their sleep after a seizure

[Drogo]

7 hours ago, BetterButter said:

Cameron Boyce, Disney Channel star, dies at 20

Too young. Very talented. 

[BW Manilowe]

3 hours ago, DrSpaceman said:

Cameron Boyce from Jessie died!  Couldn't believe it, used to watch that show with my son :

https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/07/cameron-boyce-dead-at-20/

I suspect that was SUDEP, sudden unexplained death in epilepsy.  Is a rare but known condition.  Just die in their sleep after a seizure

I’ve read that his death was post-seizure related.

[Was-MArsenault]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/martin-charnin-dead-tony-winning-creator-broadways-annie-was-84-1222778

[VCRTracking]

Lois & Clark Actor Eddie Jones Has Passed Away

[Picture It. Sicily]

7 minutes ago, VCRTracking said:

Lois & Clark Actor Eddie Jones Has Passed Away

Aww, he and K Callen were awesome together as the Kents!

[LilWharveyGal]

Awww. L&C, A League of Their Own, and The Rocketeer were big parts of my childhood and he was always great.  The scene in League where he waves good-bye to Marla still makes me tear up.  Rest peacefully, sir.  

Edited July 8, 2019 by LilWharveyGal

[Spartan Girl]

1 hour ago, VCRTracking said:

Lois & Clark Actor Eddie Jones Has Passed Away

Aww, RIP Jonathan!

[Bastet]

3 hours ago, LilWharveyGal said:

The scene in League where he waves good-bye to Marla still makes me tear up.

A League of Their Own is what I associate him with (I never watched Lois & Clark), and that train station scene always makes me tear up, too.  ("Nothing is ever gonna happen here.  You have to go where things happen.")  We're in good company; Penny Marshall said on the Blu-Ray commentary track that it got to her every time, too.  It was a small role, but he fits right in as one of the many wonderful things about that film.

[Lugal]

5 hours ago, VCRTracking said:

Lois & Clark Actor Eddie Jones Has Passed Away

Aww crap.  He will always be the Official AKA the Fat Man on Invisible Man to me.

"Shut up, Eberts!"

[BW Manilowe]

From USA Today: Disney Star Cameron Boyce’s Cause of Death Is Deferred ‘Pending Further Investigation’

[Jaded]

He was 64 and died from dementia... 🙁

James Henke, Key Figure at Rock Hall of Fame and Rolling Stone Magazine, Dies
 

[MissAlmond]

Billionaire businessman and former presidential candidate Ross Perot has died.  Age 89.

https://www.thewrap.com/ross-perot-billionaire-businessman-and-2-time-presidential-candidate-dies-at-89/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/billionaire-business-magnate-former-presidential-candidate-ross-perot-dead-89-n1027781

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/09/billionaire-and-former-presidential-candidate-ross-perot-is-dead-at-89.html

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/business/2019/07/09/ross-perot-self-made-billionaire-patriot-philanthropist-dies-89

Edited July 9, 2019 by MissAlmond
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[biakbiak]

Rip Torn.

[BW Manilowe]

7 minutes ago, biakbiak said:

Rip Torn.

I thought he had died a few years ago, or so.

[spiderpig]

52 minutes ago, biakbiak said:

Rip Torn.

Remember when he was married to Geraldine Page and the mailbox on their Manhattan apartment was  labelled "Torn Page"?

 She shrugged off his many indiscretions, saying "He makes beautiful babies".

[Robert Lynch]

9 minutes ago, spiderpig said:

Remember when he was married to Geraldine Page and the mailbox on their Manhattan apartment was  labelled "Torn Page"?

 She shrugged off his many indiscretions, saying "He makes beautiful babies".

David Habour looks exactly like Rip Torn.

[Spartan Girl]

7 hours ago, biakbiak said:

Rip Torn.

He was in so many movies, but I think I'll remember him most as Patches O'Houlihan.

[MissAlmond]

Read a few Rip Torn stories.  What a character!  R.I.P. Mr. Torn.

[Was-MArsenault]

8 hours ago, biakbiak said:

Rip Torn.

The only thing that I knew him from was Hercules. Rest in peace Mr. Torn.

[Was-MArsenault]

Does anyone know how Rip Torn died? I was looking to see if there was a cause of death, but couldn’t find anything.

[Popples]

1 hour ago, MikaelaArsenault said:

The only thing that I knew him from was Hercules. Rest in peace Mr. Torn.

For me, it was Hercules, the first Men in Black film, and as King Louis XV in Marie Antoinette.

[Was-MArsenault]

12 minutes ago, Popples said:

For me, it was Hercules, the first Men in Black film, and as King Louis XV in Marie Antoinette.

Oh right. I forgot about those two movies, but I've never seen Marie Antoinette. I have seen Men In Black though.

[Inquisitionist]

From the NYTimes obituary:

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Mr. Shandling said it was Mr. Torn’s performance as Albert Brooks’s unconvincingly reassuring afterlife lawyer in the comedy “Defending Your Life” (1991) that won him his role on “The Larry Sanders Show.”

I loved Defending Your Life and Rip Torn's role in it.  So tickled to read that it led to perhaps his best role, as Artie on The Larry Sanders Show.

[Angeltoes]

I only remember him as being Sissy Spacek's cousin.

[Blergh]

One bit of trivia re the now-deceased Mr. Torn, he was the first cousin to Sissy Spacek (of all people)! RIP, Mr. Torn. 

[BetterButter]

Freddie Jones, film actor and Emmerdale's Sandy Thomas, dies age 91

[MissAlmond]

2 hours ago, Angeltoes said:

I only remember him as being Sissy Spacek's cousin.

I remember Rip Torn as an actor and for being Sissy Spacek's cousin.  Mail me my prize 😄.  

[spiderpig]

13 hours ago, Robert Lynch said:

David Habour looks exactly like Rip Torn.

I had to go to ImDB and you are so right.

[spiderpig]

1 hour ago, BetterButter said:

Freddie Jones, film actor and Emmerdale's Sandy Thomas, dies age 91

He was in one of Mr. pig's favorite movies...Elephant Man.  I could barely watch it once because it was so heartbreaking,

Son Toby is a fantastic actor on his own,

[BW Manilowe]

5 hours ago, MikaelaArsenault said:

Does anyone know how Rip Torn died? I was looking to see if there was a cause of death, but couldn’t find anything.

I Googled but everything I found said “No cause of death given”.

[Was-MArsenault]

Just now, BW Manilowe said:

I Googled but everything I found said “No cause of death given”.

He probably died from natural causes.

[Was-MArsenault]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cameron-boyce-suffered-from-epilepsy-which-caused-fatal-seizure-family-says/

[AntiBeeSpray]

Damn. 😢  Condolences to her family and friends. May she rest in peace.

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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory star Denise Nickerson has been taken off life support one year after suffering a severe stroke.

Her son, Josh Nickerson, and his wife, Jasmine, announced the actress, 62, had been removed from “all the equipment” Wednesday morning on Facebook.

“None of it was helping, but making her only more uncomfortable. We’re telling her it’s okay to let go,” the couple wrote on the page they created to provide updates on Nickerson’s health.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/willy-wonka-star-denise-nickerson-62-taken-off-life-support-after-suffering-severe-stroke/ar-AAE8BwB

Sources:   msn and people

Edited July 10, 2019 by AntiBeeSpray

[Moose135]

18 hours ago, biakbiak said:

Rip Torn.

I always confused Rip Torn and Rip Taylor - not that they looked anything alike, I just didn't remember who was who.

[ShadowHunter]

Sorry to hear about Denise Nickerson. I remember her from the soap Dark Shadows. Even met her a few times at some of the DS Conventions.  May she rest in peace. Well wishes to her family and friends.

[Mittengirl]

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1 hour ago, Moose135 said:

I always confused Rip Torn and Rip Taylor - not that they looked anything alike, I just didn't remember who was who.

Thank you for posting this!  I have been wracking my brain trying to figure out who I had Torn confused with.

[Enigma X]

@Moose135 (and @Mittengirl) apparently I have been confusing them too. I just looked him up, and yep, I thought Taylor was Torn.

[AimingforYoko]

2 hours ago, Moose135 said:

I always confused Rip Torn and Rip Taylor - not that they looked anything alike, I just didn't remember who was who.

Sounds like a Bill Paxton-Pullman situation. (Alternatively, Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney)

[ABay]

Dylan McDermott Mulroney.

[Calvada]

22 hours ago, BW Manilowe said:

I thought he had died a few years ago, or so.

In the past week there have been three of these deaths - Lee Iacocca, Ross Perot, and Rip Torn - where I would have said dead if asked about them during a Dead or Alive quiz.